Kinsey’s Misses Key Public Workshop

The controversial plan to rebuild the US 101-Sir Francis Drake Boulevard interchange and one mile of freeway south to Corte Madera is in Supervisor Steve Kinsey’s Fourth District. Besides being a county supervisor Kinsey a key player on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the key funding force behind the freeway expansion.

If anyone should be anxious to hear the public’s concern about the $143 million dollar project, it’s Kinsey. Yet he failed to attend the public “workshop” on the Caltrans-led proposal.

It’s estimated that 250 to 300 central Marin residents had the time to show up at last Tuesday’s workshop to express their concerns. Apparently Kinsey had something more important to do.

The crux of the public’s frustration isn’t the proposed change to the 101-Sir Francis Drake Boulevard interchange. The hubbub is about the portion of the plan that revamps the freeway and adjacent frontage roads from the existing interchange down to Corte Madera’s Tamalpais Drive.

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In addition to missing the two previous meetings held to hear the public’s concerns, Kinsey left last Tuesday’s joint Corte Madera/Larkspur Council meeting before public comment began. So that means he hasn’t heard a single member of the public voice their opinion on this highly controversial project in a public meeting.